The bakery thread

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by ford71V8

Havent had a chocy donut since I was in primary school, but will grab hot donuts for a treat.
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Had one today, I like the way the women staff will always ask what icing do you want, suggesting chocolate, my response is always the same, 'you choose.'
Like its not manly to eat a pink icing ones.

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by roKWiz

Had one today, I like the way the women staff will always ask what icing do you want, suggesting chocolate, my response is always the same, 'you choose.'
Like its not manly to eat a pink icing ones.

Go on, live on the edge!

[X-AHH]

So, I was at a Balfours outlet in a well known Adelaide shopping center last year and about to place an order for my favorite product of theirs, the custard tart. All of a sudden, my daughter was frantically clawing at my shoulder and telling me to walk away. My reaction was to ask why she was stopping me from partaking in the custardy nutmegy delicacy when she pointed out that a rather large cockroach was having its dinner in the donut section of the display cabinet.

I was truly shocked and my immediate thought was to warn the people behind the counter of this occurrence. They initially took the situation seriously but I sensed it wasn't the first time that this had happened. They went looking for the six legged bakery thief and we walked away.

Half an hour after, we walked past the same place and the donuts were still on display with no effort made to remove the contaminated items.

I never ate Balfours donuts again after that, just couldn't get the image of the insect going to town on them out of my head.

[westoftown]

Originally Posted by xahh

I never ate Balfours donuts again after that, just couldn't get the image of the insect going to town on them out of my head.

I used to work at the Balfours factory for a time in the late noughties. There are many stories about the practices there and the characters I could recount but on the subject of donuts:

The donut crew would always leave a tray of the days' haul in the staff room to which I'd smash often.

One day I was doing just that when I remarked something to the effect of "love the taste of fresh donuts" and the rest of them sitting on the table erupted into laughter when one of them said to me "that donut you're eating was made in Sydney 6 months ago, frozen and trucked over".

A valuable lesson to learn as a 17 year old